Look at the name of the blog Bob, it’s a question – "a law abiding citizen?" It is in response to the incessant claim by the gun lobby that gun laws only restrict law abiding citizens. Every story on this blog is about someone who had no criminal record and could therefore go into any gun store and buy any weapon. So according to the gun lobby doesn’t that mean they were all law abiding citizens?And as far as David Laffer is concerned – he was high on drugs but you don’t know what kind of drugs or where he got them. Maybe he had a prescription for hydrocodone but wanted more, lots more. So he took his handgun – which he legally owned because he had no criminal record – and committed what the D.A. describes as “the most cold-blooded robbery-homicide in Suffolk County history.”

Every criminal was once a law abiding citizen........until they committed a crime.

The entries on this blog involve people who are legally eligible to purchase and possess guns. These are people whom the gun lobby would refer to as "law abiding citizens." It is the contention of the gun lobby that stricter gun laws would only hurt these law abiding citizens.